Abstract

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This research aims to analyze the violation of maxims in Hotel Transylvania 2 movie. In specific, this research aims to identify the types of violation of maxims and find out the reasons of the characters performing violation of maxim in Hotel Transylvania 2 movie. The researcher used Paul Grice’s theory of cooperative principle in analyzing the types of violation of maxims in the movie. While in finding the reasons of violation of maxim, the researcher relates Grice’s theory to Leech’s theory of illocutionary function of politeness.

This research employs qualitative approach since this research is content analysis. The data were collected from the utterances of the characters in the movie containing violation of maxims. They were taken from Hotel Transylvania 2 script written Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel.

The results of the research show that the first is four types of violation of maxims are performed by the characters in Hotel Transylvania 2 movie: quantity, quality, relevance, and manner violation of maxim. The second is that there are four reasons that lead the characters in the movie to violate the maxims: competitive, collaborative, convivial, and conflictive reason. Relating to the types of maxim, the maxim of relevance is mostly performed by the characters in the movie. While, the maxim which is rarely violated by the characters is the maxim of manner. In term of reason, the collaborative reason is the most reason that leads the characters to violate the maxims. While, the convivial reason is the lowest rank of reasons.